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Vapor IO and VAST Data Forge Alliance to Unlock Enterprise AI

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Vapor IO, the creators of Zero Gap™ AI, is collaborating with VAST Data, the AI data platform company, to help enterprises simplify, accelerate, and optimize their AI deployments.

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  • Vapor IO, the creators of Zero Gap™ AI, is collaborating with VAST Data, the AI data platform company, to help enterprises simplify, accelerate, and optimize their AI deployments.
  • Combining Vapor IO’s Zero Gap AI with the VAST Data Platform offers an edge-to-core AI fabric capable of simultaneously catering to a wide range of business priorities.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240425043188/en/
    Enterprise-Grade AI & Data in 36 US Cities (Graphic: Business Wire)
    The combined solution will be sold as part of Vapor IO’s Zero Gap AI.
  • By providing a fully-integrated data layer, Zero Gap AI aims to accelerate the adoption of AI by enterprises, particularly those with large volumes of multimodal data.

Snowflake Launches Arctic: The Most Open, Enterprise-Grade Large Language Model

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market.

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  • Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market.
  • The Snowflake Arctic LLM is a part of the Snowflake Arctic model family, a family of models built by Snowflake that also include the best practical text-embedding models for retrieval use cases.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240424761970/en/
    Snowflake Arctic adds truly open large language model with unmatched intelligence and efficiency to the Snowflake Arctic model family (Graphic: Business Wire)
    “This is a watershed moment for Snowflake, with our AI research team innovating at the forefront of AI,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake.
  • Now with the launch of Arctic, Snowflake is delivering a powerful, truly open model with an Apache 2.0 license that permits ungated personal, research, and commercial use.

Iceberg Summit Unveils Speaker Lineup for May 14-15 Free, Virtual Event

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Today the Iceberg Summit Selection Committee announced the lineup of speakers for the first Iceberg Summit: a free, virtual event being held May 14-15, 2024.

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  • Today the Iceberg Summit Selection Committee announced the lineup of speakers for the first Iceberg Summit: a free, virtual event being held May 14-15, 2024.
  • The summit will be the first event dedicated to Apache Iceberg, spanning two days with more than 30 sessions.
  • Iceberg Summit explores the state and evolution of technology in the Iceberg project and ecosystem, as well as the real-world experiences of data practitioners and developers working with Iceberg.
  • “The growth and vibrancy of the Iceberg community has been tremendous, and truly exemplifies the Apache Way.”
    To register for Iceberg Summit, visit https://iceberg-summit.org .

Newegg Announces Fiscal Year 2023 Results and Fiscal Year 2024 Guidance

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Newegg Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEGG), a leading global technology e-commerce retailer, today announced results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and guidance for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.

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  • Newegg Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEGG), a leading global technology e-commerce retailer, today announced results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and guidance for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.
  • In response to this challenge, Newegg implemented multiple cost optimization initiatives, including our real estate consolidation efforts, and expects full realization of the cost saving benefits in 2024.
  • Average order value was $379 for the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to $411 for the prior year.
  • The Company anticipates filing its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, on April 24, 2024.

Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH launches Poland’s fastest supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland’s fastest system1.

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  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland’s fastest system1.
  • The new system, called Helios, is Cyfronet’s fifth-generation supercomputer and will be used to advance AI-driven scientific research and innovative commercial applications.
  • The supercomputer delivers a theoretical peak performance of 35 petaflops, which is over four times faster than Cyfronet’s previous flagship system.
  • Helios also has a total of 17.5 petabytes of Lustre file system storage built on the HPE Cray ClusterStor E1000 Storage System.

New Relic Enhances AI Monitoring, Industry’s First APM for AI

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

New Relic , the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, announced the general availability of New Relic AI monitoring with a suite of powerful new features to meet the evolving needs of organizations developing AI applications.

Key Points: 
  • New Relic , the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, announced the general availability of New Relic AI monitoring with a suite of powerful new features to meet the evolving needs of organizations developing AI applications.
  • With 60+ integrations, New Relic AI monitoring is one of the most comprehensive solutions that helps organizations find the root cause of AI application issues faster, furthers their adoption of AI, and supports them at every stage of their AI journey.
  • Full AI stack visibility: Holistic view across the application, infrastructure, and the AI layer, including AI metrics like number of requests, response time, and token usage.
  • New Relic AI monitoring is generally available as part of its all-in-one observability platform and offered as part of its usage-based pricing model.

Slimbook Fedora 2: New Ultrabooks for Fedora Linux 40

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Today, the Fedora Project and Slimbook are pleased to announce the Slimbook Fedora 2 .

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  • Today, the Fedora Project and Slimbook are pleased to announce the Slimbook Fedora 2 .
  • The Slimbook Fedora 2 comes in 14 inch and 16 inch models and provides users with new features and upgrades.
  • The Slimbook Fedora 2 offers:
    This hardware update comes with a software upgrade courtesy of Fedora's latest release, Fedora Workstation 40.
  • Fedora Linux 40 also comes with the latest Nouveau drivers to give users an improved out of the box experience with the NVIDIA graphics card found in the 16 inch model of the Slimbook Fedora 2.

Edge Impulse Brings Industrial Computer Vision Breakthroughs in Anomaly Detection to Any Edge Device for the First Time

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Companies cannot collect real-world samples for every anomaly, especially for unanticipated defects, limiting detection capabilities.

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  • Companies cannot collect real-world samples for every anomaly, especially for unanticipated defects, limiting detection capabilities.
  • Edge Impulse’s FOMO-AD architecture, two years in development, offers the first widely accessible platform for visual anomaly detection on any edge device, from GPUs to MCUs.
  • “Virtually every industrial customer that wants to deploy computer vision really needs to know when something out of the ordinary happens,” said Jan Jongboom, co-founder and CTO at Edge Impulse.
  • In recent months, Edge Impulse has been testing FOMO-AD with customers, achieving proven results in industrial environments when proactively detecting irregularities in multiple production scenarios.

FPT to Shape the Future of AI and Cloud on a Global Scale in Collaboration with NVIDIA

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

This endeavor will be attained by establishing AI factories for AI research and development in the region, expanding advanced AI and cloud capabilities on a global scale, and fostering a future-ready workforce in technology.

Key Points: 
  • This endeavor will be attained by establishing AI factories for AI research and development in the region, expanding advanced AI and cloud capabilities on a global scale, and fostering a future-ready workforce in technology.
  • These will feature NVIDIA’s latest technologies, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and frameworks and NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs .
  • FPT further intends to collaborate with NVIDIA on opportunities to develop cloud gaming with NVIDIA GeForce NOW in Vietnam.
  • FPT is working with NVIDIA to empower organizations across Vietnam to drive transformation, helping the country become an AI nation.”

No Rest for the Wicked Available Now in Early Access

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

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  • (Graphic: Business Wire)
    No Rest for the Wicked is a mature, precision Action Role-Playing Game (ARPG).
  • “The Early Access launch of No Rest for the Wicked is a monumental achievement for our team and it marks a new chapter in our company’s history on the road towards 1.0.
  • "What Moon Studios has accomplished with the Early Access launch of No Rest for the Wicked is truly remarkable, showcasing artistic and technical excellence," said Paul Berry, Lead Producer for No Rest of the Wicked.
  • No Rest for the Wicked is in development and launches in Early Access on Steam today, April 18, 2024.